EDUC 1300 - Learning Framework (Lourdes Arnal de Prats): Books of Interest

Introduction 6; Cautions and sensitivity 7; What are essential oils? 8; Where do oils come from? 10; History of aromatherapy 12; Healing power of oils 14; How the body absorbs essential oils 16; Methods of use 18; Blending essential oils 22; Massage 26; Preparation 28; Basic techniques 30; Full body massage sequence 34; Sensual massage 48;.

"The Complete A-Z Reference of Essential Oils for Health and Healing"--

Combining aromatherapy with hypnotherapy, this hands-on approach to mind/body healing offers 12 essential-oil formulas to be used in the bath in combination with specific guided imagery and meditation exercises. The formulas

Integrating centuries of herbal traditions with modern science, this guide comprehensively overviews the principles of aromatherapy. It presents detailed information on using aromatherapy to treat common ailments, as well as explaining the origins of essential oils and methods of application.

As practicing aromatherapists with solid backgrounds in herbal and massage therapy, the authors deliver an interdisciplinary perspective, along with a wealth of formulas, recipes, and applications.

Create your own personal aromatic oils for every use--healing, pleasure, and beauty--with this comprehensive aromatherapy recipe book.

The perfect bedside clinical guide for busy professionals, it covers 20 essential oils and their uses in women's health, from pregnancy to menopause. Readers will come away equipped with new tools to improve their patients' comfort and wellbeing, with the confidence of drawing from a reliable base of clinical evidence.

Synergistic blending is at the very core of aromatherapy practice. This book explores the concept of synergy and the evidence for its presence and significance and provides practical guidance on how to build aromatherapeutic blends effectively and safely based on research evidence.

The first of two volumes, this is a comprehensive clinical text on the principles behind the clinical use of essential oils. It builds an important foundation for essential oil therapy and includes profiles of the most important 30 essential oils used in practice.

Experts in child psychology and pedagogy concur that how children are schooled today seriously conflicts with how they learn and develop. Children are being left behind and the promises and possibilities of childhood are slipping away. This book aims to disclose a deeper understanding of music's importance in children's lives and their need to know, explore, wonder, and play

Ever wonder what is going on in a baby's brain? Or how you can best nurture a child's natural development? Or why exactly Bach is better than Mozart for babies? This book will explain why. No technical knowledge is necessary.

A Well-Tempered Mind investigates the intriguing connection between music education and brain development in children. Peter Perret and Janet Fox use the details of an innovative music education program for elementary school students to explore this fascinating relationship.

The second edition of The Music and Literacy Connection expands our understanding of the links between reading and music by examining those skills and learning processes that are directly parallel for music learning and language arts literacy in the pre-K, elementary, and secondary levels.

Rigorously updated, with a convenient new modular format, Learning and Memory, Second Edition, is unmatched at showing students where the study of learning and memory is and where it is heading. Requiring no prerequisite coursework, it connects learning, memory, and neuroscience in a way that fits your classroom.

The intellectual development of human beings from birth to adulthood is a fascinating phenomenon. Understanding the constraints that limit children's intelligence, as well as discovering methods to improve it, has always been a challenging undertaking for developmental psychologists.

From making conversation to walking and driving, learning and memory are crucial aspects of our survival.

A thorough revision of the 1992 edition of The Encyclopedia of Learning and Memory, the second edition features new articles and article updates that capture advances in the ever-changing fields of memory, neuroscience, and cognition.

The tips and techniques in this essential guide will help readers remember numbers, dates, facts, names, and places, as well as how to take notes on and recall what they've read. These invaluable skills will not only help students do well in school but also improve their day-to-day lives, making it easier to remember things like meeting times, important appointments or loved ones' birthdays, and items on one's to-do list.

From a leading expert at one of the world's most respected medical schools--a complete program for achieving optimal memory, for life! Ever find yourself walking into a room and forgetting why? Having trouble remembering that pesky password or your siblings' birthdays? Don't panic. Memory lapses like these are common, especially after age forty. But memory loss isn't inevitable or irreversible. You can achieve optimal memory at any age--and this book shows you how.

A breakthrough approach to optimize your brain, change your habits, and succeed in school, from a renowned neuroscientist and bestselling author of Change Your Brain, Change Your Life

A Child's Brain is a rich resource that: Examines the neurobiology of childhood, explaining the body and brain systems that develop during pregnancy, infancy, and childhood Explores factors that can enhance or delay development, such as nutrition, family life, relationships, illness, intelligence, technology, creativity, and the arts

Ultimately, argues Gardner, possessing a basic set of seven or eight intelligence is not only a unique trademark of the human species but also perhaps even a working definition of the species. Gardner also offers provocative ideas about creativity, leadership, and moral excellence, and speculates about the relationship between multiple intelligences and the world of work in the future.

A four-corner paradigm for quality teaching: setting the climate for learning, using brain-based teaching skills, putting it all into practice, and receiving student feedbackInspiring and insightful, the third edition of Brain-Compatible Classrooms offers a highly relevant, holistic model for applying brain research in the classroom.

So Each May Learn: Integrating Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences This practical guide helps explain a simple five-step process that helps educators integrate the two approaches into current lessons, or combine them into new and powerful lessons and units.

Meditation is now used to treat a range of disorders, including, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, chronic pain, and addiction. In the past twenty years we have also learned much more about the underlying neural bases for meditation, and why it works.The Psychology of Meditation: Research and Practice explores the practice of meditation and mindfulness and presents accounts of the cognitive and emotional processes elicited during meditation practice.

The Diamond Color Meditation presents an inspiring use of color in a therapeutic meditation that is designed for relaxation, deep personal growth, and healing. As you discover the power of each color, you will experience the healing effect it has on your mind, body, and soul. Going far beyond traditional color therapies, this book introduces a completely original concept that uses color to evoke the only true healing--that which begins from within. To learn more about Dr. Diamond, feel free to visit his website at www.drjohndiamond.com.

With your personal guru-in-a-guidebook, you don't have to devote years to become enlightened before you can enjoy the relaxing, stress-relieving benefits of meditation. Effective, effortless techniques amusingly demonstrated and illustrated in these pages by former wimps like yourself, offer immediate results. Enjoy an instant mini- mind vacation without resorting to the dreaded lotus position and complicated mantras.

This spiritual self-help book offers easy, step-by-step procedures to master the ancient arts of meditation and enlightenment. It offers practical techniques to increase love, power, and energy; reduce stress and tension; improve health; reverse aging; and bring well-being, contentment, and peace of mind to everyday life.

Specially geared to the needs of the beginning meditator, this book explains more than 50 meditation practices. Each chapter also covers historical background, contemporary use, a description of the practice, and resource list. Even an advanced meditator will find new information in this book to enhance the inner life.

Meditation is centuries old and prevalent in almost all ancient cultures in one form or another. Initially, people in the West were enamored by its spiritual promise of personal transformation, but now a larger portion is attracted to mindfulness meditation (Vipassana or insight meditation) because of the promise of enhanced physical and mental wellbeing.

This introduction to meditation in education is written as a resource for class teachers and educators as a practical guide. Parents will also find it valuable, though its main focus is in using meditation in schools. The purpose of the book is to inspire and to provide concise, practical, and general information, and techniques that can be considered and explored before introducing primary or secondary students to a meditative experience.

The Meditation Sourcebook can help both the beginner and the experienced practitioner, providing how-to techniques and comprehensive resources.

This is a classic text on the essence of Buddhist meditation. It is an excellent, in-depth description of mindfulness practice and its benefits. Although the Buddha lived over 2500 years ago, his teachings on meditation are among the most effective methods for healing the pain of grief, finding inner peace, and overcoming the sense of dislocation caused by living in the 21st century. Mindfulness is a method not only for committed Buddhists. It is for everyone interested in mastering the mind.

The American Academy of Pediatrics, the trusted organization that represents the nation's top pediatricians, presents this revised and updated age-specific guide to help your children thrive during these formative years.

A collection of more than 120 recipes formulated to optimize brain health, boost memory, improve mood, sharpen the central nervous system, and more. Between digital overload, sleep deprivation, and the stress of modern life, most people's brains are constantly in flight-or-fight mode, with levels of cortisol and other hormones and neurotransmitters out of whack.

This new tool is designed to inform users about healthy eating, the nutritional value of various foods, diets, eating disorders, dietary conditions and so much more. Salem Health: Nutrition provides in-depth articles on 300 topics in an easy-to-use A-Z format.

The purpose of this book is to examine the relationship between children overweight and educational outcomes. This book is a guide designed to help professionals find information related to the role of nutrition in learning and behaviour in children. It is a resource for parents and teachers, and educators interested in materials that will create a food and nutrition awareness in children while teaching them the basics of healthy eating and physical activity. The book also includes toddler and infant nutrition and health.

This book describes the aetiology, prevalence and frequency of anxiety disorders among college students. In addition, the association between gender differences and proneness to depression among college students is examined, including the risk factors (such as anxiety) in the development of depression.

Relieve anxiety, fear, and worry for good! This second edition of Coping with Anxiety includes the latest DSM updates and provides immediate, user-friendly, and effective strategies to stop anxiety at its source.

The book covers four major areas that are health, work place, community, and education.

The needs of young people today are quite different from those of even 5 years ago, and this book pays great attention to the specific issues encountered in caring for today's students who experience distress or develop significant mental health conditions.

Helps you work out what it is that makes you stressed and shows you how you can tackle it.

Men have learned to be adept at hiding strong emotions or covering them with anger. This book has a series of techniques and strategies for not only dealing with stress, but preventing it.

Landmark new guide to women's health, can help.

The stress that children face has never been greater. This book helps equip kids with the stress management skills they need for dealing with pressures now and throughout life.

Recapture the fun in your life! This book provides the most effective methods of stress reduction.

Learn the science behind stress and start living better. In this practical book Dr. Lupien shows how stress can and should be controlled, not avoided.

Many women deal with stress differently from their male counterparts. Dr. Saunders educates women on how to reduce and handle the stress in their lives more effectively.

Dr. Jensen gathers what we've discovered about adolescent brain function, wiring, and capacity and explains the science in the contexts of everyday learning and multitasking, stress and memory, sleep, addiction, and decision-making.

Modern science has given us a new and increasingly clear and complete picture of how dreaming is created by the brain. This picture is important not only for understanding dreaming itself but also for a science of consciousness and of mental health and illness. This book focuses on dreaming to introduce the reader to sleep laboratory science and to the cellular and molecular mechanisms of sleep. It shows how the new science of dreaming affects theories in psychoanalysis, and how it helps to understand the basis of mental illness.

Can such techniques as sleep learning and hypnosis improve performance? Do we sometimes confuse familiarity with mastery? Can we learn without making mistakes? These questions apply in the classroom, in the military, and on the assembly line. Learning, Remembering, Believing address these and other key issues in learning and performance.

Everyone agrees that what we do in schools should be based on what we know about how the brain learns. Until recently, however, we have had few clues to unlock the secrets of the brain. Now, research from the neurosciences has greatly improved our understanding of the learning process, and we have a much more solid foundation on which to base educational decisions.

How do the arts stack up as a major discipline? What is their effect on the brain, learning, and human development? How might schools best implement and assess an arts program? Eric Jensen answers these questions--and more--in this book.

Written for the early childhood educator-experienced or trainee, musician or nonmusician--this book describes a music-enriched environment for teaching the whole child.

Centered on three themes, this book explores the latest research in plasticity in sensory systems, with a focus primarily on visual and auditory systems. It covers a breadth of recent scientific study within the field including research on healthy systems and diseased models of sensory processing.

Revised and updated edition of his classic work, featuring new research and practical strategies to enhance student comprehension and improve student achievement. In easy to understand, engaging language, Jensen provides a basic orientation to the brain and its various systems and explains how they affect learning.

A powerful guide for applying brain research for more effective instruction The book serves as a bridge between research and practice by providing a cohesive, proven, and usable model of effective instruction.

Describes how cutting-edge and classic research findings from the fields of brain science and cognitive psychology may be applied to classroom teaching.

Uses educator-friendly language to explain how the brain learns. This book bridges that divide by providing examples of strategies for day-to-day instruction aligned with the latest brain science.

From struggling students to academic all-stars, everyone can do better in school. Research shows that executive functions such as focus and organization are more valuable to school performance than intelligence or talent. Happily, these functions are skills,so students can learn them.

This game-changing analysis of how the mind teaches will transform common perceptions of one of the most essential human practices, charting a path forward for teachers, parents, and anyone seeking to better understand learning-and unlocking the teaching brain in all of us.

Powerful research-based strategies to turn around struggling adolescent students The achievement gap is widening and more teens than ever are struggling in school.

Lyons does a masterful job of introducing teachers to the concepts, categories, language, and arguments pertaining to the brain's control of what readers do. She offers a new way of thinking about learning, about how the mind develops, and about what teachers can do to reach struggling readers.

By bridging the research and application gap in education, this text not only covers the latest  findings related to learning and teaching but also provides insights for application and practice for brain-based methods in health and education. This integration of neuroscience and education takes us from a deep understanding of brain function to the frontline of the classroom.

This book discusses the processes, influences and performance of learning and memory. Chapter One reviews the growing evidences indicating the importance of iron overload onto learning and memory behavior of the brain. Chapter Two explains the issue of what adult age of acquisition (AoA) estimates really measure. Chapter Three describes the various forms of structural and functional neuronal plasticity that occur in the hippocampus and their role in hippocampal-dependent learning and memory.

Willis and Willis describe how the brain converts a vast amount of sensory input into long-term memory and durable understanding, and how educators can use this knowledge to guide students to more successful experiences in school and beyond.

Accessible summary of what accelerated learning methods can offer and achieve.

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Explore the multiple definitions of acceleration, examining the social and historical context that led to an emphasis on labeling and sorting students.

This guide includes sample lesson plans and brain-compatible strategies to motivate students of any grade level, create new memory pathways, and significantly impact learning.

Green Light strategies provide teachers with research-based lesson plans for teaching content in a memorable and efficient way and enhancing students critical thinking skills.

This book describes how to meet the challenge of teaching intensive and accelerated courses to nontraditional learners and working adults.

The book focuses on the shift from training to learning to collaborative learning in the modern socially networked age, using latest research in Neuroscience. It outlines the key frameworks, processes and tools to adopt and implement accelerated learning in organisations to build and sustain an adaptive and insightful approach to business and talent development.